View down the U shaped glacial trough from near the front of the Fox glacier, New Zealand (Photo by: Geography Photos/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

New Zealand police have confirmed that the two Australians who died in a helicopter crash on the Fox Glacier on NZ's South Island were from New South Wales.

They have been identified as 27-year-old Sovannmony Leang and 29-year-old Josephine Gibson.The four Britons killed in the crash have been identified as Andrew Virco, 50, Katharine Walker, 51, Nigel Edwin Charlton, 66, and Cynthia Charlton.